A corridor is a part of LA County where an industry is ready to grow. We bring everything that industry needs into one place, from capital and sites to suppliers and trained workers, so the jobs, contracts and ownership it creates stay in the neighborhood.
A corridor is an industry and a place, growing together.
Most economic development works one business at a time. That matters, and our Business Services Network does it every day. But a single business grows faster when the block around it is growing too: when the customers, suppliers, workers, lenders and landlords it needs are all close by.
So we also work at the scale of a whole corridor. We pick an industry and a place that are ready for each other, and we line up the partners who can make that growth happen, on purpose and all at once.
Healthcare, the creative economy, aerospace, or the rebuild after a disaster. Something with real demand and room to grow.
A set of neighborhoods and cities with the land, the people and the momentum to host that growth.
Banks, major buyers, property owners, cities, colleges and community groups, all at the same table.
An industry cluster is a group of related businesses that get stronger by being close together. At the center are the anchors, the big employers and buyers. Around them are the suppliers and service companies that sell to them, the schools that train their workers, the lenders that finance them, the buildings they work from, and the public partners who clear the way.
LA already knows how this works. Hollywood is a cluster. So is aerospace in the South Bay. Corridor development is how we help the next clusters grow in the places that are ready for them, with local businesses and local workers in every ring.
In the South LA Healthcare Corridor, the cluster grows around the MLK Medical Campus and the health centers that already serve 1.3 million residents.
When a hospital or a studio buys from the supplier down the street, that supplier grows, hires and buys from its own neighbors.
Colleges and training programs teach for the jobs the cluster is actually creating, so residents step straight into them.
Every contract, paycheck and lease kept inside the corridor gets spent again in the same neighborhoods, and builds local ownership.
Three corridors are forming their consortiums now. Two more are taking shape. Here is what each one is building, and where it stands today.
01Building LA's destination for metabolic health. Anchored at the MLK Medical Campus in Willowbrook and reaching across Service Planning Area 6, home to 1.3 million people, from Compton and Lynwood to Gardena, Carson and Watts.
02Helping Altadena's businesses reopen, rebuild and grow after the Eaton Fire, and making sure the people who built this community own its future, from the Lake Avenue and Fair Oaks business districts out.
03Bringing the Palisades business community back to life, block by block, along Sunset Boulevard and the Village, with capital, permitting help and customers lined up for every business that reopens.
04Hollywood, Burbank, Culver City, Santa Monica, Inglewood and South LA, working as one creative economy, so the next wave of production, live events and investment grows creative businesses and workers in all six.
05LA County helped build the aerospace industry, and the next generation of air and space companies is growing here now. Our aerospace corridor is next in line.
88Not in one of these corridors? We work with all 88 cities in LA County to attract, keep and grow businesses.
Talk to our teamEvery corridor follows the same path. The community sets the direction, partners bring the resources, and businesses grow because the pieces they need are finally in one place.
A corridor health assessment maps the businesses, buyers, sites, talent and capital already in place, what is missing, and where dollars are leaving the neighborhood.
Residents, business owners and community groups say what they want their corridor to become. That vision sets the outcomes every partner works toward.
Seven consortiums bring the lenders, major buyers, property owners, cities, colleges, health plans and community groups who control what the corridor needs.
This is where you come inTogether, the consortiums put the pieces in place: capital ready to lend, sites ready to lease, a faster path through permits, and contracts open to local suppliers.
We bring new businesses in and help the ones already here grow, with free advising, courses and tools from our Business Services Network.
A corridor health index tracks dollars deployed, businesses opened, jobs filled and money kept local, so every partner sees what their contribution made possible.
Where we are now: the Healthcare, Altadena and Palisades corridors are at step 3. Their consortiums are forming this fall, founding members are announced December 9, and the work kicks off in late January.
Consortiums are working groups where organizations that shape a corridor, from lenders and hospitals to cities and community groups, design solutions together. Each one has room for about 15 members, and the founding seats are open now. Member agreements are due November 30.
See the seven consortiums, what each kind of partner gets and gives, and what membership looks like. It is free to join and takes about 90 minutes a month.
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